Re: Running Gtk application in new terminal

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 16:08:07 +0000
"Mazer, Alan S (389M)" <Alan S Mazer jpl nasa gov> wrote:
> Here you go.  This code implements a simple command processor, one
> command of which starts up a gtk app.  I tried it with an app of mine
> called "ngdcs" and it works.  You might want to read up on fork and
> exec ("man fork", "man execv") but this does work for me:

Since the OP is using GTK+, it seems more logical to use
g_spawn_async() or g_spawn_async_with_pipes(), the latter of which will
also set up pipes for stdin, stdout and stderr for you.  (And they are
also cross-platform.)

https://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.40/glib-Spawning-Processes.html

Chris